We were given a system of government that places the people at the center of all decision-making and relies on the consent of the governed, with our rights and the government's limitations clearly outlined.
I don't think politics has anything to do with left, right, or center. It has to do with trying to do right by people.
Leadership is all about people. It is not about organizations. It is not about plans. It is not about strategies. It is all about people-motivating people to get the job done. You have to be people-centered.
I've been saying it at all our Senate Democratic retreats we need to speak to the heart, not in a manipulative way, not in a way that brings forth everybody's fears and resentments, but truly to speak to the heart so that people know that we're actually on their side.
We are not a single-issue party that puts abstract policy ahead of the working lives of people. We are not bitter, frightened xenophobes.
The leader is there for the people, not the people for the leader
Politics is not left, right or center ... It's about improving people's lives.
There must be public servants who are working regularly among the people.
When Roosevelt came along, I approved of his program, generally. I figured an economic system should work for people, not vice versa.
Here is the principle - adapt your measures to the necessity of the people to whom you minister. You are to take the Gospel to them in such modes and circumstances as will gain for it from them a hearing.
The Democratic Party isn't any good unless they know it's about people!
Policies absent people have no meaning.
Basically, we've grown up very focused on the institution. The institution tells me what to do. It tells me where to go. It tells me what my career path is, and then I, sort of, attach my own personal desires, my own personal interests. I think we're living in a time where we're going to have to change - to put people in the center.
Architects are mostly self-centered and their buildings express their ego. [They are] not social buildings to make it more comfortable for people - to make life better for people. The cities have to be designed so people can get together and talk with one another.
A new business model based on old principles of social justice where people matter - now that's a revolutionary way to reduce inequality.
I don’t poll. I go out into the communities and talk to regular people. That’s the poll.
I think that's my hope for a lot of the feminist movement is that the gender thing sort of stops being the selling point, if that makes any sense. We're just people making art, and that's how this process has felt to me.
Real leadership is leaders recognizing that they serve the people that they lead.
Basically, I think 21st century conservation is moving toward preserving ecosystems by dealing with the needs of people.
We put people at the center of everything we do.
Politics should come from human stories.
I am definitely a person who firmly believes in the human touch and in the importance of people.
At the core of the products we build, I want to think about productivity centered around people.
The adjectives that are in the book ["Win"] - passion, persuasion, persistence, perfection, prioritization, being people-centered - none of them are as important as principles. Without principles, the language will fail.
Where the government is a government of the people, it is essential that the history be a history of the people. The history of a democracy ought not to be an Iliad.
